Rotan, TX 79546 Frost Dates
Rotan, TX: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/17, about 201 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/15, roughly 243 days after the last spring frost.
Rotan sits in USDA Zone 8a (10 to 15°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 11 weeks until Rotan's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/17 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/28 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/03 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Rotan against the rest of the dataset
About 243 days separate Rotan's last and first frost, putting it 8,312 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 1,856 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 79546's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Rotan's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Rotan can differ from the 79546 normal.